Leia found Rey practicing her Jedi training alone. She was practicing punching and kicking, unusually violently. She was out of breath but kept going. Leia approached and stood in the corner of the room.
Rey saw Leia come in the room and ignored her for a minute. "Leia, I saw a vision of the Resistance dying, everybody was massacred, I won't let that happen! There has to be some way to stop this. What about the Force are you not telling me!?"
"Rey, there is nothing the dark..."
"I don't believe you, there has to be a reason why the dark side keeps winning. I need to become more powerful, it's the only way to save everybody!"
"Rey, there is nothing the dark side can do which the light side cannot," said Leia softly.
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU." said Rey, nearly shouting and looking Leia right in the eyes.
"Rey, you need to stop this. This is how my son turned into the monster he is now. Follow the training, follow the Force, do your best and we will win," said Leia with a raised voice.
Leia continued "For now, the kids need you. Go talk to them. I hear you didn't say a word to them the whole trip back."
Rey's shoulders dropped and the anger in her demeanor started to dissipate.
Rey found the kids in a room nearby. "Hello kids, I am Rey, sorry I was not talkative before."
"Are you a Jedi?" said Haita.
"Yes I am. You are free now. We are not masters over you."
The two kids looked at each other and smiled. "We have been slaves for so long," said Temiri.
Temiri said "The last man was really mean, he was going to make us eat gross Sith food. What are we going to do now? Do you know Luke Skywalker? Are you going to train us as Jedi? Who is going to take care of us? Can we eat anything we want? I think the dark man likes you..."
"Whoa slow down kids, what are your names?" said Rey.
"I am Temiri. I lived on Canto Bight in the stables for the races. I don't know my real parents. Lat Poor bought me and Haita and then sold us."
"I am Haita, I lived on Ryloth until my parents were killed and I was sold to Lat Poor".
Rey said "I am sorry, your lives must have been hard. I know a little something about that. I was abandoned by my parents when I was younger than you."
"Sometimes when we were with Lat Poor we would float Juna worms into his soup and he would eat them," said Haita. The kids looked at each other and smiled.
"When I was in the stables once I told a fathier to kick my master in the butt," said Temiri, and the kids giggled again.
Rose Tico came into the room. Temiri looked at her and his face lit up. "I remember you! You are from the Resistance!"
Rose's mouth opened in astonishment. "Yyyeees, that was me, HI! Yes we are the Resistance, and we are going to win!"
"And I was trained by Luke Skywalker, I hope to teach you the ways of the Force, but with kindness instead of fear," said Rey.
The kids looked at each other and smiled.
Rose said "Is it OK if I take the kids on a tour of the ship?"
"Sure Rose, that would be great," said Rey.
"Hold on, Rose, I have an idea," said Rey.
Rey left the room and came back with something behind her back.
"Who of you is oldest?" said Rey.
"I am!" said Temiri.
"Well, this was Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. I have a new one and don't need it anymore. I'd like to give it to you, Temiri."
"Whooooowwww" said Temiri and looked in awe at the weapon.
"Haita I'll get you one next."
Temiri ignited the blade and swung it around back and forth, up and down, rapidly. The blade broke through a light fixture in the room and pieces of it shattered everywhere.
"Ooops, sorry" said Temiri.
"That is a dangerous weapon, do not ignite it until we have trained, or I will take it away, got it?"
"Yes, sorry Rey."
"Alright, Rose?"
"C'mon kids, let's go!" said Rose. And they left the room.
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Supreme Leader Kylo Ren sat quietly pondering in his sparsely decorated quarters, alone, staring at the wall. He repeated the visions over and over in his mind. There was nobody to consult with about what they meant.
A message appeared on the terminal in his room. General Hux's image appeared. "The fleet is in position, and the Council of First Order leaders are waiting, you are late."
"I heard you." said Kylo Ren.
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Kinder Blat, a Resistance communications specialist, approached Leia and Poe. "Leia, Poe, our spies have indicated the First Order leadership is about to gather in one ship near the small twin planets of Gralh and Grath."
Poe's eyes widened, "Leia this might be our chance to take down the First Order in one battle. If we strike hard and fast on their lead ship we could end them. Without leadership there would be chaos and other systems would probably rally against the remnants of their troops. What do you think?"
Leia paused to think. "My son may be killed."
Poe's tone softened. "Yes, he might."
Leia paused to think some more. "...Thousands of planets are counting on us to rid the galaxy of the First Order. Are we sure the intel is correct?"
Kinder Blat replied, "General, the last three batches of First Order intel from these spies have been correct. I believe this intel to be accurate."
Leia sighed. "Can we send a scout ship to investigate?"
Poe replied, "Yes that is a good idea." I will get on it. Poe left.
Leia turned to an assistant next to her. "Please fetch Rose Tico for me."
When Rose arrived, Leia said "Rose, we are about to attack the First Order. I have a mission for you, I need you to do something for me if we succeed."
A few minutes later, Poe returned. "General, we have got a message from a friendly nearby merchant ship, there is a First Order gathering near the twin planets."
"Then we should attack. Poe, make the preparations." said Leia.
When preparations were made, General Leia Organa gathered around the Resistance fighters nearby and opened a channel to talk to the other ships nearby. "We have an urgent, but great opportunity to strike a fatal blow on the First Order. We have discovered the First Order leadership has gathered in one ship near the planets Gralh and Grath. We are going to attack the lead ship and hopefully destroy their leadership, launching them into chaos. They are going to launch every counter against us. This is very risky and there may be losses, ...including my son."
"I am counting on you to accomplish this mission. Will you join us and do this?"
The crowd gathered hesitated, but several shouts of "yes!" were heard.
"Thank you for your bravery and sacrifice. Make the Force be with us."
The Resistance fleet moved to light speed, when they came out of light speed they saw a larger, huge Star Destroyer, flanked by two regular-sized Star Destroyers on each side, between the two small planets.
Poe Dameron was in the lead X-wing, flanked by about 30 X-wings, bombers, Y-wings, etc... and 3 capital ships. Leia's ship held back to observer and coordinate the attack.
"Alright team, on this mission we focus all fire on the main ship, we ignore everything else. As long as we can handle the heat, we need to focus our attack on that ship until it's destroyed. The C and D groups will take on the tie fighters that will be launched while everybody else focus on blowing up that ship."
The Resistance fleet moved towards the two Star Destroyers and started bombing the larger Dreadnought.
"No tie fighters yet, either they are not prepared or something is wrong." said Poe.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Leia.
Suddenly a white wave of energy emerged from each planet, cris-crossing and converging on all the ships in the area.
"What was that?!" said Poe. "My engines are down, my instruments are down, I'm dead in the water, can anybody hear me?"
Nobody replied.
Poe looked out through his window, other Resistance ships seemed to be floating, helplessly.
Rey was with Leia, yelled into the microphone, "Poe, anybody, can anybody hear us?! What happened?"
"It was a trap!" said Leia. "That must have been an EMP blast. They knew we were coming. Our ship was outside the blast area, but the rest of the fleet may have no power or oxygen!"
Poe yelled out, "Hello, can anybody hear me? Anybody?" But no lights flickered in his X-wing, nothing electronic worked. Poe looked out his window, "This is not good, we are sitting ducks." He reached back behind his seat and pulled out an oxygen mask, and a pillow shaped object which glowed red with heat when Poe twisted it. "Interesting, the Star Destroyers are not moving either."
Suddenly a Super Star Destroyer flanked by two regular sized Star Destroyers came out of hyper space.
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General Hux was standing up in a large meeting room with twelve of the senior leaders of the First Order circled around a table as they watched on a large monitor.
"You have been invited here to witness the end of the Resistance. As you can see our new weapon has neutralized the Resistance fleet, they are now floating helplessly in space."
"Very good General Hux," said Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. "This day will long be remembered in history."
"Yes, it will. Now if you will follow me to the hangar, we will watch as the ships take off to clean up the mess," said General Hux.
The twelve plus General Hux and Kylo Ren walked into the hangar. They watched as all troops in the hangar boarded tie fighters in the hangar and took off.
Three ships remained. Fourteen troopers from one ship exited a ship, and fourteen from another. Most troopers lined up near Kylo Ren, except two which lined up near the twelve. Others stood near heavy guns on tripods. Some stood near exits.
Then six figures clothed in black exited the third ship. Garmoth Ren approached Kylo Ren and said, "Hey buddy," in a sarcastic tone.
At that moment, all troopers fired on the Supreme Leader. Kylo Ren ignited his saber, blocked as many shots as he could, and backed up behind some storage containers. Two troopers lead the twelve First Order leaders to a corner and guarded them. General Hux stood in a corner and smirked.